Scandix pecten-veneris L.

Code

SCAPV

Growth form

Broadleaf

Biological cycle

Annual

Habitat

Terrestrial

Algeria: Scandix pecten-veneris germinates in autumn-winter, flowering occurs from March to June.
Iraq: It flowers from March to April and fruits from May to June.
Morocco: Scandix pecten-veneris flowers from April to June.

Scandix pecten-veneris reproduces by seed.

Scandix pecten-veneris is a zoochorus species.

Scandix pecten-veneris is a C3 species.

Algeria: Scandix pecten-veneris is a very common messicolous species in all the country's annual crops (winter wheat-cultivated fallow). It has no particular soil preference, growing on both clay and sandy soils.
Iraq: Present in the mountains, on grassy areas among shrubs and trees, in shady areas in oak woods on limestone, in fields in valleys, etc.; hillsides and fields in the upper plain; fields, gardens and ditches in the irrigated alluvial plain; up to altitudes of 700-1100 m (sometimes 1600 m or more).
Morocco: Scandix pecten-veneris is a very common messicolous species, found in winter cereals, pastures, rocky environment and sandy soils from plains to medium mountains with sufficient rainfall, up to 2000 m altitude.

Local harmfulness

Algeria: Scandix pecten-veneris is a major weed. It is one of the most damaging messicolous weeds in field crops, as it can colonize practically any ecological environment (a very common species). Moreover, its great adaptation to the agricultural environment and its high seed production give it a very high potential for invading plots (an abundant species whenever it is present).

Local control

Algeria: Scandix pecten-veneris is controlled in cereal crops with a combination of a false-sowing cultivation method and a pre-emergence herbicide treatment with 2,4-D, dicamba, florasulam + 2,4-D, etc. or a post-emergence herbicide with tribenuron-methyl, iodosulfuron-methyl-sodium + amidosulfuron-sodium + mefenpyr-diethyl, etc.